probably came in the same ship as Roger Williams, then returned to America for the second time and landed at Boston that year. Robert Field was one of the sixteen persons to whom Governor William Kieft granted a patent for the town of Flushing, Long Island, October 19, 1645, and he settled in the part now called Bayside.

The chief genealogists of the Field family, Osgood Field and Frederick C. Pierce, differ as to Robert's marriage. At any rate, it was through his wife, Elizabeth (Taylor) Field, probably a native of Rhode Island, that the line descended. Ruth Fairbank, of Hipperholme, according to Pierce, was his first wife, married in 1624, and Charity, surname unknown, his third, who survived as his widow in 1673. The list of his children follows: 1. John, baptized in Halifax, England, December 25, 1625. 2. Robert, born probably in 1636, in Rhode Island; married Susanna, surname unknown. 3. Anthony, of whom further. 4. Benjamin, born 1640, died 1734 in Flushing; married Sarah, surname unknown. 5. Hannah, married, May 7, 1656, John Bowne, a Quaker. 6. Elizabeth, married, as second wife, Captain John Underhill.

(XII) Anthony Field, son of Robert and (according to Pierce) Elizabeth (Taylor) Field, was born, probably in Rhode Island, in 1638. He received a house lot at Flushing in February, 1653 or 1654, where he settled. From 1675 to 1683 he is recorded as one of the taxpayers of Flushing. He is last mentioned as being given a patent of confirmation of the grant of town land, March 23, 1683. He is spoken of in the marriage entry of his son Benjamin in 1691 as deceased.

He married Susannah, surname unknown, who was living November 30, 1691. Their children were born at Flushing, Long Island: 1. John, born in 1659; married Margaret, surname unknown. 2. Benjamin, of whom further.

(XIII) Benjamin Field, son of Anthony and Susannah Field, was born at Flushing, Long Island, in 1663. He died there December 1, 1732. He married (first) November 30, 1691, Hannah Bowne, born April 2, 1665, died December 30, 1707, daughter of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne, of Flushing. (See Bowne III.) He married (second), February 23, 1709, Elizabeth Feake, of Matinecock, who died in 1724. He married (third), April 13, 1727, a widow,

Sarah Taylor, whose will was proved March 20, 1734. The children, all by the first marriage, were born in Flushing: 1. Benjamin, born in 1692 or 1693; married Sarah Taylor, February 13, 1727. 2. John, born January 13, 1694; married Elizabeth Woolsey. 3. Samuel, born October 10, 1696; married Mary Palmer. 4. Anthony, born July 28, 1698; married Hannah Burling. 5. Hannah, born July 20, 1700, died November 21, 1721; married Thomas Haviland. 6. Joseph, born June 12, 1702; married Molly Denton. 7. Sarah, born August 17, 1704, died 1724; married James Clements. 8. Robert, of whom further.

(XIV) Robert Field, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Bowne) Field, was born in Flushing, September 7, 1707, and died in Harrison, February 2, 1737 or 1738. He moved, with his older brother, Anthony Field, to Westchester County, New York, in 1725. They went to Harrison, sometimes called Harrison's Purchase, or Purchase, until 1695 part of the town of Rye. He married (first), November 12, 1729, Rebecca Burling, daughter of Ebenezer Burling, of Long Island, and she died February 2, 1736. He married (second), Abigail Sutton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Sands) Sutton. (See Sutton III.) Robert Field's children were: 1. Sarah, married, August 18, 1756, Isaac Underhill, at Harrison. 2. Uriah, of whom further. 3. Jerusha, married Stephen Field, October 15, 1760; she died in 1792.

(XV) Uriah Field, son of Robert and Abigail (Sutton) Field, was born at Harrison, New York, 1737 or 1738. He died on King Street, Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1814. Except for yearly journeys to Vermont, Uriah Field lived on his homestead just over the Connecticut line from Harrison. On January 18, 1764, he married Mary Quinby, (Quimby), daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Cornell-Palmer) Quinby. (See Quinby-Quimby IX.) Their children were: 1. Aaron, born 1764; married Jane Haviland. 2. Abigail, born 1766; married Richard Mott. 3. Robert, born 1769; married Hannah Wood. 4. Elizabeth, born 1771; married John Carpenter. 5. Josiah, born 1774; married Hannah Griffin. 6. Hannah, born 1778. 7. Isaiah. 8. James, of whom further. 9. Sarah, born 1782. 10. Mary, born 1785. 11. Anne, born 1789.

(XVI) James Field, son of Uriah and Mary (Quinby or Quimby) Field, was born in Connecticut, in 1780, and died in 1865, living and dying on the homestead farm in Greenwich. He was